Writing
Choose
Transparency in Government Surveillance
Nick Grossman – Jul 18, 2013
Today, we have joined a large and diverse group of companies, non-profits and consumer advocates in an open letter urging the US government to allow internet and telecom companies to freely report statistics on government surveillance requests.As we've discussed before, [...] Read more
The Patent Quality Improvement Act
Nick Grossman – May 9, 2013
This week, Senator Schumer introduced legislation that would take a whack at patent trolls: the Patent Quality Improvement Act aims to make it easier and cheaper for companies facing spurious infringement suits to defend themselves. This is not a complete [...] Read more
Hacking Society
Nick Grossman – Apr 24, 2012
Today we are excited to bring together a group of thinkers and doers to USV to discuss how networks are transforming our society and economy Read more
Connected Learning
Nick Grossman – Apr 13, 2012
Yesterday at the Center for Civic Media, our lunch guest was S. Craig Watkins, a professor at UT Austin working on a variety of projects under the heading of “Connected Learning”. In his blog post about the idea, Dr. Watkins defines this as: [...] Read more